Hi! I am Purnendu.

It is pronounced as pour-nen-doo and means Full Moon in Sanskrit. I just go by a singular name. I am a designer, trained as a physicist. I combine my love for design, physics, and computation to fabricate human centered programmable materials.

I love to surround myself with great people, crazy ideas and am always seeking creative environments. Currently, I am working at the Reality Labs (RL) Research at Meta on soft wearable haptic devices. I am PhD student at the interdisciplinary ATLAS Institute at University of Colorado Boulder where I am developing fabrication techniques for materials with controllable shape, stiffness, and color. I work with Carson Bruns , Greg Whiting , and Mark D. Gross and actively collaborate with Christoph Keplinger and Daniel Leithinger .

Earlier, I co-founded a nanotechnology company in India Log 9 Materials , (which focuses on manufacturing and developing commercial applications around Graphene) and a multidisciplinary Design Studio at IIT Roorkee. I hold a Integrated Master's degree in physics (with specialization in material science) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. My portfolio includes research at various institutions around the globe including the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany and Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany.

I love to build things, break more things, read , write , and sketch as well as travel (17 countries so far). Connect with me at: purnendu.connect@gmail.com

Some of the research papers, articles, dissertations that have had a lasting influence on me are listed here (for book recommendations, please scroll more):